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School building won't use money from health district
by Robb Fulcher
Money from the Beach Cities Health District will not be used to build a new multipurpose room under construction at Hermosa View School. The district decided instead to fund the project itself.
"It just didn't make financial sense to go with them," said school district Superintendent Robert "Duffy" Clark.
Health officials had proposed spending about $750,000 to build the 3,200 square-foot multipurpose room at the school on Prospect Avenue.
Under that plan, the school district would use the room for meetings and other purposes, and the health district would use it for its public classes when school was out. The old plan would have called for the school district and health district to enter into a 30-year lease agreement.
Meanwhile, officials continue to discuss a similar arrangement in which the health district would spend about $1.5 million to build a 10,000-square-foot gymnasium at Hermosa Valley School on Valley Drive. The school district is looking at three possible on-campus sites for the gym.
The funding arrangement would be similar to one between the health district and the city of Manhattan Beach, which resulted in construction of playing fields and a youth health and fitness center on seven acres along Marine Avenue.
In that case, the health district bought the land from the city, and is leasing back to the city about six of the seven acres.
On the remaining acre, the health district built a 16,000-square-foot health and fitness center, with on-site parking, for South Bay youth. ER